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Japan's railways carried 9.147 billion passengers (260 billion passenger-kilometres) in the year 2013–14. [3] In comparison, Germany has over 40,000 km (25,000 mi) of railways, but carries only 2.2 billion passengers per year. [4] Because of the massive use of its railway system, Japan is home to 46 of the world's 50 busiest stations. [5]
List of railway lines in Japan lists existing railway lines in Japan alphabetically. The vast majority of Japanese railways are classified under two Japanese laws, one for railways (鉄道, tetsudō) and another for trams (軌道, kidō). The difference between the two is a legal, and not always substantial, one.
Chūō Main Line (East Japan Railway Company, Central Japan Railway Company) Chūō-Higashi Line (Common name. East Japan Railway Company) Chūō-Nishi Line (Common name. Central Japan Railway Company) Chūō-Sōbu Line (Common name. East Japan Railway Company)
1918 Toppan Printing Co. map of Japanese Railways. The history of rail transport in Japan began in the late Edo period. There have been four main stages: [1] Stage 1, from 1872, the first line, from Tokyo to Yokohama, to the end of the Russo-Japanese war; Stage 2, from nationalization in 1906-07 to the end of World War II;
A JNR map from the October 1964 English-language timetable, showing the then-new Tokaido Shinkansen line (in red) and conventional lines A 0 series set in front of Mount Fuji. Japan was the first country to build dedicated railway lines for high-speed travel.
Japan Railways Group operators such as JR East or West Japan Railway Company (JR West) are generally not considered major private railways because they are descended from the government-owned Japanese National Railways (JNR), despite their size and their status now as private, for-profit railways, following the dissolution of JNR in 1984.
East Japan Railway Company, or JR East, is the largest passenger railway company in the world. It operates trains throughout the Greater Tokyo area (as well as the rest of northeastern Honshū ). In addition to operating some long-haul shinkansen ("bullet train") lines, JR East operates Tokyo's largest commuter railway network.
Tōkaidō Main Line (East Japan Railway Company, Central Japan Railway Company, West Japan Railway Company) Tōkaidō Shinkansen (Central Japan Railway Company) Tōkō Line (Freight. Nagoya Rinkai Railway) Tokoname Line (Nagoya Railroad) Tokushima Line (Shikoku Railway Company) Tōkyō Monorail Haneda Line (Tokyo Monorail)